The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

<p>Washington Irving&#39;s classic, <em>&quot;The Legend of Sleepy Hollow</em>,&quot; has been making spines tingle since 1820! Irving tapped into a timeless fear: the prospect of a late night journey shrouded in fog turning suddenly fatal. Our imaginations conjure every conceivable danger, but in one of history&#39;s most famous encounters, one Ichabod Crane comes&mdash;dare we say it, face to face? &mdash;with the &quot;specter known at all the country firesides,&quot; the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow. A classic, distinctively American tale, that evokes additional terror as Halloween comes and goes each year, this is the original, 1820 version, as originally found in Irving&#39;s collection of short stories entitled &quot;<em>The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent</em>.&quot;</p>